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List Of Apocalyptic Films
This is a list of apocalyptic feature-length films. All films within this list feature either the end of the world, a prelude to such an end (such as a world taken over by a viral infection), and/or a post-apocalyptic setting. Pre-1950 * '' The End of the World'' (1916) * '' End of the World'' (1931) * ''Deluge'' (1933) * '' Things to Come'' (1936) 1950–1959 * ''Five'' (1951) * ''When Worlds Collide'' (1951) * ''Day the World Ended'' (1955) * '' World Without End'' (1956) * ''The Lost Missile'' (1958) * '' Teenage Caveman'' (1958) * '' On the Beach'' (1959) * '' The World, the Flesh and the Devil'' (1959) 1960–1969 * ''Beyond the Time Barrier'' (1960) * ''Last Woman on Earth'' (1960) * ''Battle of the Worlds'' (1961) * '' The Last War'' (1961) * ''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' (1961) * ''The Creation of the Humanoids'' (1962) * ''Panic in Year Zero!'' (1962) * ''The Day of the Triffids'' (1962) * '' This Is Not a Test'' (1962) * ''La Jetée'' (1962) * '' Ladybug Ladyb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apocalyptic And Post-apocalyptic Fiction
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; astronomical, such as an impact event; destructive, such as nuclear holocaust or resource depletion; medical, such as a pandemic, whether natural or human-caused; end time, such as the Last Judgment, Second Coming or Ragnarök; or more imaginative, such as a zombie apocalypse, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics or alien invasion. The story may involve attempts to prevent an apocalypse event, deal with the impact and consequences of the event itself, or it may be post-apocalyptic, set after the event. The time may be directly after the catastrophe, focusing on the psychology of survivors, the way to keep the human race alive and together as one, or considerably later, often including that the existence of pre-catastro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last War (1961 Film)
is a 1961 Japanese tokusatsu science-fiction film directed by Shūe Matsubayashi. Produced and distributed by Toho, it was the Toho's second highest-grossing film in Japan that year. Plot The film begins with a narration over shots of a modern-day Tokyo, noting that 16 years have passed since the end of World War II, and Japan has achieved rapid recovery. Mokichi Tamura works as a driver for a press center, hoping for happiness for his family. His daughter, Saeko, is in love with a merchant, Takano, who has been at sea for a long time. When he returns, the young couple agrees to get married with the consent of Saeko's father. Meanwhile, tensions between the Federation and the Alliance (fictional stand-ins for the United States/NATO and the USSR/Warsaw Pact, respectively) build, especially after an intelligence-gathering vessel is captured. A new Korean War breaks out across the 38th parallel, with the Federation and Alliance drawn into the war. Tensions reach a critical leve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The War Game
''The War Game'' is a 1966 British pseudo-documentary film that depicts a nuclear war and its aftermath. Written, directed and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC, it caused dismay within the BBC and also within government, and was subsequently withdrawn before the provisional screening date of 6 October 1965. The corporation said that "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting. It will, however, be shown to invited audiences..." The film eventually premiered at the National Film Theatre in London, on 13 April 1966, where it ran until 3 May. It was then shown abroad at several film festivals, including the Venice one where it won the Special Prize. It also won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1967. The film was eventually televised in Great Britain on 31 July 1985, during the week before the fortieth anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, the day before a repeat screening of '' Threads''. Synopsis Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crack In The World
''Crack in the World '' is a 1965 American science-fiction doomsday disaster movie filmed in Spain. It is about scientists who launch a nuclear missile into the Earth's crust, to release the geothermal energy of the magma below; but accidentally unleash a cataclysmic destruction that threatens to sever the earth in two. It was released by Paramount Pictures on February 24, 1965. Plot An international consortium of scientists, operating as Project Inner Space in Tanganyika, Africa, is trying to tap into the Earth's geothermal energy by drilling a very deep hole down to the Earth's core. The scientists are foiled by an extremely dense layer of material. To penetrate the barrier and reach the magma below, they intend to detonate an atomic device at the bottom of the hole. The leader of the project, Dr. Stephen Sorenson (Dana Andrews), who is secretly dying of cancer, believes that the atomic device will burn its way through the barrier, but the project's chief geologist, Dr. Ted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Man On Earth (1964 Film)
''The Last Man on Earth'' is a 1964 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film based on the 1954 novel '' I Am Legend'' by Richard Matheson. The film was produced by Robert L. Lippert and directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, and stars Vincent Price and Franca Bettoia. The screenplay was written in part by Matheson, but he was dissatisfied with the result and chose to be credited as "Logan Swanson". William Leicester, Furio M. Monetti, and Ubaldo Ragona finished the script. ''The Last Man on Earth'' was filmed in Rome, with scenes being completed at Esposizione Universale Roma. It was released in the United States by American International Pictures. In the 1980s, the film entered the public domain. MGM Home Video, the current owners of the AIP film catalog, released a digitally remastered widescreen version of the film on DVD in September 2005. Plot It is 1968, and Dr. Robert Morgan lives in a world where everyone else has been infected by a plague that has turned th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fail-Safe (1964 Film)
''Fail Safe'' is a 1964 Cold War thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The film follows a crisis caused by a critical error that sends a group of U.S. bombers to destroy Moscow, and the ensuing attempts to stop the bomber group before it can deploy a nuclear first strike. The film features performances by actors Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, Dana Elcar, Dom DeLuise and Sorrell Booke. In 2000, the novel was adapted again as a televised play starring George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss and Noah Wyle, and broadcast live in black and white on CBS. Plot United States Air Force General Black has been having recurring dreams in which a Spanish matador kills a bull before a cheering crowd. Black flies to Washington, D.C. to attend a conference led by Dr. Groeteschele, a political scientist renowned for his expertise on the politics of nuclear weapons. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time Travelers (1964 Film)
''The Time Travelers'' (also known as ''Time Trap'') is a 1964 science fiction film directed by Ib Melchior and starring Preston Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders, Steve Franken, and John Hoyt. (Delores Wells, ''Playboys Miss June 1960, has a bit part, as does superfan Forrest J. Ackerman.) The film inspired the 1966 TV series ''The Time Tunnel'', as well as the 1967 remake ''Journey to the Center of Time''. The plot involves a group of scientists who find that due to an electrical overload their time-viewing screen suddenly allows them to ''travel'' through time. American International Pictures released the film as a double feature with ''Atragon''. Plot Scientists Dr. Erik von Steiner, Dr. Steve Connors, and Carol White are testing their time-viewing device, drawing enormous amounts of power. Danny McKee, a technician from the power plant, has been sent to tell them to shut down their experiment. During the test, odd shadows quickly cross the room immediately before the screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
''Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'', known simply and more commonly as ''Dr. Strangelove'', is a 1964 black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. The film was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick and stars Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and Slim Pickens. The film is loosely based on Peter George's thriller novel '' Red Alert'' (1958). The story concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It separately follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Royal Air Force (RAF) exchange officer as they attempt to prevent the crew of a B-52 plane (who were following orders from the general) from bombing the Soviets and starting a nuclear war. The film is often considered one of the best comedies ever made, as well as one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladybug Ladybug (film)
''Ladybug Ladybug'' is a 1963 American docudrama film directed by Frank Perry and written by Eleanor Perry. The film is a commentary on the psychological effects of the Cold War, the title deriving from the classic nursery rhyme. It marked the film debuts of William Daniels, Estelle Parsons and Jane Connell. The film was inspired by a ''McCall's'' magazine story about an actual incident at a California elementary school during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Plot One morning, teachers at a secluded countryside elementary school are asked to accompany the pupils to their homes after a nuclear attack warning alarm sounds and the staff are unable to determine whether or not the alarm was false. One teacher and the children under her care walk through the countryside, with a slowly building sense of doom about what they believe to be the upcoming nuclear holocaust. Several of the children reach their homes; one girl cowers under a bed after her parents refuse to take the threat seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Jetée
''La Jetée'' () is a 1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker and associated with the French New Wave#Left Bank, Left Bank artistic movement. still image film, Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-apocalyptic science fiction, post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. It is 28 minutes long and shot in black and white. It won the Prix Jean Vigo for short film. The 1995 science fiction film ''12 Monkeys'' was inspired by and borrows several concepts directly from ''La Jetée''. Plot A man (Davos Hanich) is a prisoner in the aftermath of World War III in post-apocalyptic Paris, where survivors live underground in the ''Palais de Chaillot'' galleries. Scientists research time travel, hoping to send test subjects to different time periods "to call past and future to the rescue of the present." They have difficulty finding subjects who can mentally withstand the shock of time travel. The scientists eventually settle upon t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day Of The Triffids (film)
''The Day of the Triffids'' is a 1962 British science fiction horror film in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor, produced by George Pitcher and Philip Yordan, and directed by Steve Sekely and Freddie Francis. It stars Howard Keel and Nicole Maurey, and is loosely based on the The Day of the Triffids, 1951 novel of the same name by John Wyndham. The film was released in the U.K. by the Rank Organisation and in the U.S. by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, Allied Artists. Plot A meteor shower blinds most people in the world and at the same time spreads triffid plant spores which quickly become animated. Bill Masen, a merchant navy officer who has been lying in hospital overnight with his eyes bandaged, is unaffected and leaves the next day. While at a railway station, he comes across an orphaned schoolgirl named Susan who, having spent the night in the luggage van, is unaffected too. He helps her escape the groping crowds and they commandeer an abandoned car in order to reach his ship. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
